Coin-mailing card.



No. 758,091. PATENTED APR. 26, 1904.

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' APPLICATION FILED AUG. 31, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented April 26, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR MUs'siNAN, OF'NEw YORK, N. Y., Assieuon TO Dennison MANU-FAGTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION or MASSACHUSETTS.

COIN-MAILING CARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,091, dated April26, 1904.

Application filed August 31, 1903.

To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, OSCAR MUSSINAN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city, county, and State of New'York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Mailing Cards, of which thefollowing isa specification.

My invention relates to coin-mailing cards,

and has for its object the production of a card of but a single pieceand Without an additional backing or gummed section and which is at thesame time adapted to secure and retain the coin in a plane with itsfront and back. To attain this end I puncture and perforate the card insuch a manner so as to cause the formation of enveloping-flaps which arealternately depressed from the opposite sides of the card, thedepressions being equal to the thickness of the coin and the flapstending to retain the coin within the pocket thus formed in the card.These'and other details of construction are described in the followingspecification and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings accompanying this specification and forming a partthereof like reference characters are adapted to distinguish like parts.

Figure l is a view of one side of a coinmailing card of my improvedconstruction. Fig. 2 is a card of modified construction. Fig. 3 is across-section of the modified form shown in Fig. 2 andon the line 3 8.Fig. 4 is a modified form of card, in which the arcshaped slits 4 arewidened so as to form openings 14, as hereinafter described.

The coin-mailing card in general use is constructed of two or morepieces, a card and a paper flap adapted to be pasted down upon the cardafter the coin is placed in anopening for its reception. This openinghas a permanent paper backing, and the coin is then held between the twopapers. Other methods are used to inclose coins in cards, but all usingadditional papers or cards to effect the retention of the coin. In theconstructions shown in the drawings it has been my object to provide acard for retaining the coin at some point on its face while beingtransmitted by Serial No. 171,315.. (No model.)

in arc-shaped slits 4 slightly larger than the coin intendedto be placedin the pocket, (the size of said coin being indicated in the drawings bydotted lines,) and the upper and lowerends of these arc-shaped slits arejoined by approximately diametrical slits 5 and 6.- Between the slits 5and 6 is left the strip 7 which unites the main body of the card on eachside of the slits 4. The slit 6 is preferably arcshaped for the purposeof guiding the coin into the pocket for its reception, and all the slitsmake the two almost semicircular flaps 8, which are united with the bodyof the card-- board by the comparatively narrow necks or joints 9. Fromthe side of the card as viewed in Fig. 2 the flaps 8 are depressed; butthe strip 7 is in relief, leaving between the two a space equal thethickness of the coin, which when in place is restrained fromdiametrical shifting by the circular walls formed by the slits 4L andthe joint 9, while it'is held from dropping out by the flaps 8 andstrip/7.

The modification shown in Figs. 2 and 3,

while similar to that shown in Fig. 1, diifers from it inhaving twoarc-shaped slits 20, which make the cross-strip 21. This constructionstrengthens the strip 21 at the points where the greatest strain uponthem occurs, and at. the same time the curved lines of the sides of thestrips help to guide the coin toward the center of the pocket formed forits reception. The cross-sectional view, Fig. 3, shows the proximity ofthe strip 21 with the flaps 22 and the relation of the same to thepocket formed thereby to contain the coin.

In Fig. i practically oval-shaped openings 14 are formed, and slits areout nearly parallel with the diameter of the pocket thus formed for thecoin. .Flaps 15 are thus formed for depression, and a cross-strip 16 isformed in relief.

The inner faces of the various flaps and strips here shown anddescribed-that is, the faces which come in contact with the coiumay beprovided with gum to be moistened to glue the coin thereto and moreeffectually secure its retention to the card, although the rigidity ofthe material composing the card is of a character sufiicient to remainin the shape given it while the coin is in its place and the wholeinclosed in an envelop.

In the various figures I have designated the depressed flap by means ofshaded surfaces that they may readily be distinguished from the plane ofthe card or the elevated surfaces, and throughout this specification Ihave used the term, depressed to designate that flap which receives thefarther side of the coin or is the bottom of the receptacle. The termselevation or relief refer to those flaps or portions of the card whichcome in contact with the exposed face of the coin.

Various modifications may at times suggest themselves in the productionof these cards without departing from the broad idea of a coin-mailingcard made of a single piece.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A coin-maillng card having a clrcular pocket for the reception of acoin, the circular portion of the card forming the pocket being providedwith two approximately diametrical slits and also with slits aroundportions of the circumference of the circle, whereby segmental portionsof the said circular portion of the card are nearly separated from theportions of the cardoutside the circle, said segmental portions beingdeflected below the plane of the card but parallel thereto so as to formthe bottom of the coinpocket, and the portion between the twoapproximately diametrical slits being deflected above the plane of thecard but parallel thereto so as to form a retaining-strip for holdingthe coin in the pocket.

2. A coin-mailing card having a circular pocket for the reception of acoin, the circular portion of the card forming the pocket be ingprovided with two approximately diametrical slits, as 5 and 6, and alsowith slits, as 4, around portions of the circumference of the circle,whereby segmental portions, as 8, of the said circular portion of thecard are nearly separated from the portions of the card outside thecircle, said segmental portions being deflected below the plane of thecard but parallel thereto so as to form the bottom of the coin-pocket,and the portion, as

7, between the two approximately 'diametrical slits being deflectedabove the plane of the card but parallel thereto, so as to form aretaining-strip for holding the coin in the pocket.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 24th day ofAugust, 1903, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OSCAR MUSSIN AN.

Witnesses:

EDWARD G. DELANEY, WM. N. MACLEAN.

